After three years spent completing her diploma in Naturopathic Nutritional Therapy, St Martins resident Claudia Smith has successfully applied to the Voucher Scheme to set up a Nutritional Therapy Clinic on St Martins. The business has received £2,759 in total of European Regional Development Fund funding which she has used to develop, branding, purchase professional photography services, computing hardware and a business website and is now ready to offer her nutritional and

We are now delivering the final year of the contracted programme which was set up to deliver £1.36 million of ERDF funding to support business development and growth across the Isles of Scilly. All the funds have now been committed to local businesses and we are now closed for applications. The Voucher Scheme has been a clear success so far delivering exceptionally well in terms of job creation, new services and product creation. Milena Fallows, Programme Manager for IOS Vouc

St Agnes residents, Kate and Rob Seddon, received funding early in 2017 to enable them to realise their long time business ambitions of providing the first and only watersports hire business on the island, aptly named 'St Agnes Watersports'. The business will run alongside and compliment their already existing business, St Agnes Campsite. The funding provided has supported them to purchase kayaks, SUP paddle boards and snorkelling equipment to get the business up and running

St Mary’s Bike Hire have successfully applied to the IOS Voucher Scheme for ERDF funding to enable them to expand their bike hire fleet to include electric bikes and also add an exciting new on line booking system to their website. The introduction of electric bikes to the St Mary's Bike Hire fleet will mean that exploring the islands by bicycle will be accessible to a whole new sector of customer and with the addition of an on line booking service they hope to be able to off

Local resident Joel Williams has successfully received funding from the Isles of Scilly Voucher Scheme to start up his new business, Scilly Property and Gardening Services. After talking to local residents and property owners Joel soon realised there was room in the market for an all year round maintenance and gardening service, particularly focusing on those smaller scale jobs, he set about putting his plans into action and applied for funding from the Isles of Scilly Vouche

This year, Scilly Business Week, will take place from Monday 6th March to Friday 10th March and is being supported by the Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Growth Hub. “We’re very pleased to be supporting Scilly Business Week this year,” adds Chris Phillips Senior Business Connector for Cornwall & Isles of Scilly Growth Hub. “It’s a great fit with the work that we do at the Growth Hub, connecting business owners and entrepreneurs with skilled advisors in order to for them to take ad

St Mary’s resident Dan Marcus has successfully received ERDF funding from the Isles of Scilly Voucher Scheme to kickstart the setup of his IT Consultancy business ‘Digital Navigators’. The business will offer a range of services to the islands from ICT business consultancy to fixing laptops and offering advice on how to access digital services. Dan has 15 years professional experience within the IT industry and soon realised with our ever increasing reliance on digital techno

As most of you will have seen, the Voucher Scheme team has been out and about visiting the islands this past week. It was brilliant to see so many local businesses and entrepreneurial locals seeking out information on the scheme and applying it to how it can further and grow their own business. The Information sessions were well attended, particularly, from Bryher and St Agnes and it was exciting for us as a team to see a variety of business growth and start up projects succe